Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] know [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Only I knew better .
2 Perhaps I knew already what the answer would be — that I must cut myself free from him .
3 So I knew immediately that he had never seen her .
4 So I knew exactly why I wanted to conduct it .
5 Having to put up with that for so long I know ever so well what patients mean when they mention those kind of difficulties ' ( French 1990 ) .
6 She was filled with an overwhelming desire to strike back at him , and suddenly she knew exactly how she could do it .
7 Oh , if only she knew exactly what she did want !
8 Well , because we have a very flexible course , a modular course which is made up of units , it 's , it 's possible to almost fit anybody into our course , so in fact she 's met one of our specialists and the analysis had been done of what she 's done before , what she wants to do in the future to try and match up the whole thing ; only she knows exactly what she 's doing .
9 Apparently she knew enough to tell other people not to worry , but that might mean no more than that she was trying to put a brave face on things .
10 I mean he did n't really give He was only you know just like erm just used his authority just to say Yeah .
11 So you know again I tend to hit it downwards you see , but a lot of players do n't even er lot of players play their rolls like that .
12 So you know just picking up Mr 's point , I h we must n't confuse , I mean I agree that quantity is one of the measures of quality but it 's not the only one .
13 So you know there the recoveries are very good , very welcomed by us , but basically we 're two years now since this happened erm pensioners have been suffering extreme mental turmoil for that period , quite frankly they 're , they 're utterly confused , they do n't understand what 's happening and to ask those sort of people to rely and put their s their , their whole future security on the outcomings of out of court settlements where claims are made for two hundred million and there 's a thirty two million you know they 're getting totally confused and I think that that they just do not know what 's happening , they , they want long-term security , we 're now getting an increasing number of people who 've retired since the schemes were wound up and are therefore getting a hundred per cent of their , their money from the company fund , which we 're told is going to run out in two-and-a-half years time .
14 So you know quite a few of these .
15 If only we knew as much about John Major 's schooldays .
16 Ministers say well the serious fraud office is looking into it but that has n't precluded inquiries er in other cases like London United Investments and Maxwell er so there should be an inquiry er into the audit of B C C I so we know exactly what went wrong .
17 So so we know roughly going up to get and make some stars and he 's going to put chains and like all round these stars .
18 Few biologists , quite rightly , have dug out badger setts , and so we know very little about these elaborate burrow systems — except that , until recently , the biggest one known had no less than 360 metres of tunnels , with 38 entrances .
19 The shock of an impact struck him squarely between the shoulder blades , and suddenly he knew exactly where he was .
20 Black Michael has had a letter from Zenda , so perhaps he knows already .
21 perhaps he knows more about the field .
22 He was aware that a captain with a record such as his has a big advantage , since any troops will respond better to a leader they know has been through the fire himself , and so he knew just what he could ask of his bowlers .
23 So he knew before .
24 My assistant , Donald , is actually an ex-art student friend of mine so he knows quite a bit about painting .
25 My assistant , Donald , is actually an ex-art student friend of mine so he knows quite a bit about painting .
26 I did n't think I had an option — I was no teenage Lothario — but anyway I knew instinctively , without even having to ask him , that Mr Broadhurst would view the loss of my virginity as incompatible with my apprenticeship .
27 And when I got through I knew immediately by the tone of her voice that she was , there was something wrong .
28 You see I mean it it did occur to me that er erm on on the three occasions that we 've done this now , it always turns out to be er me involved in about just you know either playing the piano or something else in just about everything .
29 And really the slate industry I think probably hinges on quality being maintained you know I mean li like I said I do n't want to go in you know I 'm no expert on this sort of thing but erm A deep sense of of injustice I think is that and , oh my God if if we let him start making us just you know like robots produce more and more slate and laying off some of the older craftsmen and you know they do and David Price who knows and I mean th they put that and and then they the last fifteen years it was a it was a defunct slate quarry before you know and they I mean it 's not as i it 's not an easy thing to er work slate I 'm sure it 's d difficult and you have to know what you 're doing .
30 But we just you know like Saturday night we really enjoy making a nice meal and having a nice bottle of wine or something and doing something
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